Manuscript from Elizabeth Dollar, speaking Southern Pomo with Robert Oswalt, June 14, 1965

Indigenous Archival Returns

Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Brayton Community Room, 162 Grimes Center
University of California, Berkeley

All are welcome. Registration is encouraged: https://forms.gle/YVYG399LpDi827Zv7.

Program

Morning session

10:00 Zachary O'Hagan (California Language Archive, UC Berkeley)
"Reflections on Salvage Preservation: Restoring Connections within and to a Collection from Peruvian Amazonia"
10:30 Luis Barragan (Manager, O’odham Piipaash Language Program)
"Voices from Our Past Enriching Our Understanding of Piipaash Language"
11:00 Margaret Field (San Diego State University)
"Language Revitalization on the Border: Documentation and Pedagogy of Kumeyaay Language in the U.S. and Mexico"
11:30 Kathleen Whiteley (UC Berkeley)
"The 'Indians of California' ICC Trial at UC Berkeley, 1953-1954"

Early afternoon session

1:30 Victoria Carlson (Yurok Tribe)
Caroline Le Guin (Portland Community College)
"A Yurok Basket Story: Language Brings Us Together"
2:00 Jonathan Geary (Language Department, Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians)
"Nisenáanweypé: Developing Nisenan language learning materials from archival documentation"
2:30 Caitlin Keliiaa (UC Santa Cruz)
"Navigating the Archive: Recovering Native Histories in the Historical Record"

Late afternoon session

3:30 William Contreras (Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla)
"Wánčiñaqiq Támíangawičtem, The House of Razon, a sharing of resilience and continuance"
4:00 Tyler Lee-Wynant (UC Berkeley)
"Revitalizing Northern Pomo numbers from documentation"
4:30 Sherrie Smith-Ferri (THPO, Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians)
"Past Stories: Elizabeth Cordova Dollar's Life as a Focal Point for Dry Creek Pomo History in the 20th Century"

Local information

Workshop location: Grimes Engineering Center is in the northeast quadrant of the UC Berkeley campus, near the intersection of Euclid Ave. and Hearst Ave. It is located in B-3 on this campus map.

Parking: Parking can be difficult near the UC Berkeley campus and in downtown Berkeley. Street parking is metered and time-limited; fines are high. The closest parking garage is the university's Lower Hearst Structure, which has some metered public spaces; the closest public garages are the Center Street Parking Garage and the Oxford Parking Garage in downtown Berkeley, managed by the City of Berkeley.

Credits

Local organization: Andrew Garrett, Tyler Lee-Wynant, Anna Macknick, Tzintia Montaño Ramirez, La Tasha Mulder, Zachary O'Hagan, Julia Peck, Dakota Robinson, Madeleine Strait

Sponsors: Department of Linguistics, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Nadine M. Tang and Bruce L. Smith Chair in Cross-Cultural Social Sciences

Image: Elizabeth Dollar, speaking Southern Pomo with Robert Oswalt, June 14, 1965 (Southern Pomo field notebook, Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages, California Language Archive, UC Berkeley)